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Editorial

The art of listening

In a world of sophisticated gadgetry, the art one to spare the time to listen to a friend’s
of listening suffers a great casualty. Listening woes. Carl Rogers, who developed Person-
is a faculty bestowed by Nature and it is a Centred Therapy, refined the concept of
technique that gets perfected in the matrix of empathy to indicate the listener’s effort to
interpersonal relationships. Yet, in a world hear the other person deeply, accurately and
satiated with hedonistic pleasure and the non-judgmentally. Rogers emphasised that
work a holism of corporate culture, who does empathy was itself a healing agent because
justice to the art of listening? It would be it gives a sense of belonging to a client with
tragic to squander away a great gift of nature great fear or low self-esteem. And he revealed
that holds unfulfilled potentialities. Even the that he discovered while working with the
great wisdom came down to the listening mentally ill that the continued experience
Self which were articulated by prophets like of not being really heard can make some
Moses and expressed as mantras by the great individuals psychotic. And people who are
Upanissadic seers. socially deprived, living in dungeons, are
hardly ever heard for messages from the
The kindergarten teacher does not listen to dungeons are so faint (1)!
her students. The court refuses to hear the
full story during a trial. The politician in Listening does not take place in an inert and
power does not listen and a coterie of such autistic-like template of the human body but
politicians can very well refuse to listen is a vibrant and conscious phenomenon that
to the vox populi. And since friendship as is supported by the Self of the body which
a phenomenon seems to be disappearing in turn must be a projection of the Being.
from a world of corporate culture, there is no Levin builds up the thesis that this Being

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